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07.23.10 -
"Over by the fish, below the soccer field," said ice scientist Bonnie Light, pointing at the Arctic sea ice from the bridge of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy earlier this month during NASA's ICESCAPE oceanographic mission.

07.22.10 -
The point where ice separates from land is called the "grounding line." For scientists, an accurate map of the grounding line is a first step toward a complete calculation of how much ice the continent is losing.

07.07.10 -
ICESCAPE has brought together a team of ice and ocean experts in the fields of biology, chemistry and physics to collect data across the sea in an effort to piece together the plankton picture.

09.01.09 -
NASA and other research scientists recently combined the high spatial coverage from satellites with a longer record from Cold War submarines to piece together a history of ice thickness that spans close to 50 years.